Text: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Tune: | GLORIA |
Arranger: | Edward Shippen Barnes |
1 Angels we have heard on high,
sweetly singing o'er the plains,
and the mountains in reply
echo back their joyous strains.
Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
gloria in excelsis Deo.
2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
Say what may the tidings be,
which inspire your heav'nly song? [Refrain]
3 Come to Bethlehem and see
him whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Angels we have heard on high |
Title: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Refrain First Line: | Gloria in excelsis Deo |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.ref. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2018 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Angels; Christ: Birth of; Joy |
Source: | Traditional French carol |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GLORIA |
Arranger: | Edward Shippen Barnes (1937) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.ref. |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Source: | Traditional French melody |